[extropy-chat] qualia

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Wed Nov 30 01:06:43 UTC 2005


As software (effectively) does do this in our brains, I doubt I am  
mistaken.

- samantha

On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Brent Allsop wrote:

>
> Samantha,
>
>
>> SIGH.  This is pointless.  A self-aware software demo should end this
>> fruitless thread.
>>
>> - Samantha
>>
>
> It is pointless - but you are still the one mistaken and therefore  
> the one
> at fault or the one that must change so this will no longer be  
> pointless.
>
> I bet you experiencing a color quale you have never experienced  
> before would
> make you say something like: "Boy -what I was saying about software  
> alone
> being able to do this was very stupid of me.  That software program  
> might
> claim to know what this new color is like - but it is obviously  
> lying."
> Don't you think?  Are you saying something like this will never  
> happen?
>
> Brent Allsop
>
>
>
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